Phyllosphere microbial ecology and bioinformatics at the University of San Francisco.
#rstats #bioinformatics #ReproducibleResearch #OpenScience #fungi #plants #ecology #pedagogy #emacs
Another option I haven't explored following this request:
Is there an institute, university, or lab in Europe that would be willing to host a mastodon server? Reach out to me if you think this would be possible at your place of work or if you're interested in figuring it out.
Resources required are relatively small for our size.
Some reassurance: the server will not close, I just prefer thinking way in advance for long-term sustainability.
Really exciting, massive, massive feature update for the tidyverse - purrr has gone parallel…
https://purrr.tidyverse.org/dev/reference/parallelization.html
Please do try it out in the dev version and let us know how it goes!
Thanks to @hadleywickham @lionel and @davis for making it a reality!
#rstats #tidyverse
purrr.tidyverse.org
Folks in data rescue and archiving initiatives may find this #RStats package from @ropensci.org useful: `gitcellar` downloads and archives all repos, issues, and PRs from a GitHub organization in one shot: docs.ropensci.org/gitcellar/ #DataRescue @datarescue2025.bsky.social
Helps Download Archives of Git...
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?
Jevin West and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
https://thebullshitmachines.com
This is not a computer science course.
It’s a humanities course about how to learn and work and thrive in an AI world.
Neither instructor nor students need a technical background. Our instructor guide provides a choice of activities for each lesson that will easily fill an hour-long class.
The entire course is available freely online. Our 18 online lessons each take 5-10 minutes; each illuminates one core principle. They are suitable for self-study, but have been tailored for teaching in a flipped classroom.
The course is a sequel of sorts to our course (and book) Calling Bullshit. We hope that like its predecessor, it will be widely adopted worldwide.
Large language models are both powerful tools, and mindless—even dangerous—bullshit machines. We want students to explore how to resolve this dialectic.
The {tidyjson} #RStats 📦 “turns complex 'JSON' data into tidy data frames.” By Cole Arendt & Jeremy Stanley.
https://github.com/colearendt/tidyjson
If you use #Emacs and #OrgMode I'm sure you'll find this short talk by @howard interesting.
EmacsConf 2024: Literate programming for the 21st Century
https://toobnix.org/videos/watch/a87a1b43-e30f-4a54-831c-5e7eafc71bce
I am launching a broad call for finding an ecology and/or evolution society that could take ecoevo.social under its wings.
While I am very happy to continue managing the technical and community aspect of this server, I do not have the bandwidth to start looking into taxes and non-profit creation issues.
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@eseb @officialSMBE @ASNAmNat @sse_evolution @SystBiol @BritishEcolSoc #sfe2
At long last... An official way to convert from office formats to #markdown with Microsoft's new {markitdown} #python package!!!!
Next week's datathoning will be fun :)
🌱 🦠 🔬 Job -- Assistant Professor of Practice in Biotechnology and Plant and Microbial Sciences at University of Arizona https://arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/4/home/requisition/21249?c=arizona
To partly answer my own question this looks like a pretty extensive and well curated list of postbac opportunities in ecology:
I'm looking for postbac opportunities in ecology/wildlife for someone looking to improve their research experience for grad school applications. If there are good compilations I'd love to be pointed to them, but also interested in individual programs if folks are aware of them. Thanks!
📝 "Get your codebase lint-free forever with lintr"
👤 Maëlle Salmon (@maelle)
@jimjamslam @adamhsparks Ivory has this option
🐳 Curious about containers? Learn how to create reproducible R environments with containers! Join @noamross, disease ecologist & rOpenSci Executive Director, as he dives into the Rocker Project & more!
👉 Nov 19, 5 pm EST | Register here: https://r-consortium.org/webinars/containerization-and-r-for-reproducibility.html
From Weverthon Machado: “📊When teaching or giving a talk, do you like presenting plots step by step, revealing e.g. one group at a time? This is often useful for walking through complex results.
“I made a R package that makes it extremely easy to do this!
“ggreveal: Reveal a ggplot incrementally”
Hi Mastodon! 👋
Dipping my toes here given the situation on the birdsite. I am Editor in Chief of #PLOSBiology, interested in all things science.
A virologist by training, I am passionate about #OpenScience and making publication process a transparent and constructive one.
I look forward to chatting about science, the evolving publishing landscape, traveling, cooking and a bit of everything!
Welcome @DaveSwofford of PAUP* fame to ecoevo.social!
@gvwilson It's not quite that but Tara McPherson's Unix at Midcentury comes to mind for me: https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/2906425/b9e1635d2b01b053b9d30d1dfd71ef97.pdf
Looking beyond Popper: How philosophy can be relevant to ecology.
#Philosophy
Exciting, team effort Led by @tinaheger
Just Accepted in @Oikos_Journal !!
Preprint @authorea
https://doi.org/10.22541/au.172451632.25510914/v1
